Ashcroft v. Iqbal

Holding that a claim is plausible where a plaintiff's allegations enable the court to draw a "reasonable inference" the defendant is liable

Bell Atl. Corp. v. Twombly

Holding that a complaint's allegations should "contain sufficient factual matter, accepted as true, to 'state a claim to relief that is plausible on its face' "

Papasan v. Allain

Holding that Ex parte Young would not support a suit against a state for ongoing liability for an alleged past breach of trust, since "continuing payment of the income from the lost corpus is essentially equivalent in economic terms to a one-time restoration of the lost corpus itself"

New York Times Co. v. Sullivan

Holding that a public official or public figure can recover damages for defamation on a matter of public concern only if he proves that the speaker acted with actual malice

Holmes v. Securities Investor Protection Corp.

Holding that the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) could not recover under RICO for stock-manipulation scheme that bankrupted broker-dealers, triggering a statutory requirement that SIPC meet the broker-dealers' obligations to their customers

Hemi Group, LLC v. City of New York

Holding that the defendant retailer's failure to make state-law-required disclosures that would make it easier for the City to recover delinquent taxes did not proximately cause the City's injury, which more directly came from the delinquent taxpayers themselves

Anza v. Ideal Steel Supply Corp.

Holding that a business could not recover against its competitor for a scheme to defraud the New York State tax authority that allowed the defendant to undercut the plaintiff's prices

Nemet Chevrolet v. Consumeraffairs.com, Inc.

Holding that a website did not contribute to alleged illegality

In re Gilead Sciences

Holding that a court need not accept as true "allegations that are merely conclusory"

Coto Settlement v. Eisenberg

Holding that on a motion to dismiss, a court may consider documents outside the complaint when the contents of the document are alleged in the complaint, the document's authenticity is not in question, and there are no disputed issues as to the document's relevance

Rule 12 - Defenses and Objections: When and How Presented; Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings; Consolidating Motions; Waiving Defenses; Pretrial Hearing

Granting the court discretion to exclude matters outside the pleadings presented to the court in defense of a motion to dismiss

Section 230 - Protection for private blocking and screening of offensive material

Limiting liability

Section 2339B - Providing material support or resources to designated foreign terrorist organizations

Clarifying the scope of “personnel”

Section 2339A - Providing material support to terrorists

Defining “ ‘material support or resources' ” as “any property, tangible or intangible ”

Section 2333 - Civil remedies

Granting any ATA claimant the right to sue "in any appropriate district court of the United States"

Section 2331 - Definitions

Defining "international terrorism" to include activities that would violate the criminal laws of the United States or any State and that, inter alia , "involve violence or endanger human life" and "appear to be intended" to intimidate or coerce a civilian population or government

Section 4102 - Recognition of foreign defamation judgments

Section 941 - Child-friendly second-level Internet domain

Extending § 230 protection to new class of entities